Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-15

iia or Calcutta i - !. Allowed 70 kiss
the Queens hands and TO attend her
court ball.
The presentation itself is a pictur-
esque affa and worth going TO see. |
although il Is fatigif;ng process. |
lads must be dressed 1T IL in the MORN |
in full court dress with a train four |
yards long and three wide: she must |
wear white veil and have three featil-
ers in her hair conspiciously placed.
The Lord Chamberlain in his instruc-
lions particularly mentions that these
feathers be placed so they can be seen
in front of the head. White gloves
also de riqueur, and as they are never
worn anywhere else except at weddings
that is an item which every lady must
attend to.
The carriages approach Buckingham
Palace in long queue and one waits
an hour or more in line. exposed to the
jeers of the populace, who look ut the
ladies dressed for court and make COM
ments, laugh and amuse themselves.
One hopes it may do them some good.
| for they look miserable enough. Ar
| irving in the noble quadrangle of Buck
| ingham Palace the music of the
| Guards band clivens one, and the 81
! lent, splendid figures of the Household
troops, the handsomest men in the
world. set like statues on their horses
No matter it the rain is pouring, as 1t
generally is, neither IEan nor horse
! moves.
Once inside the palace and your
card of entrance handed to the Queen
/ page, some official takes cloak and
the lady wends her way up a magnifi-
cent staircase. Another and another
hall is passed and she finds herself in a
magnificent suit of drawing-roOms.
Gentlemen of the household Offering
with uniforms and orders stand about.
Soon she arrives at the last drawing
room. where chairs are placed, and
tho handsome women come dropping in
The necessity of court costume, the
three feathers and the veil then be-
comes apparent. She is amazed at the
beautiful effect produced BY this SINH
laritv of headdress, contrasted by the
variety of dresses. The train, rid Gu
lous elsewhere, looks well here. F.
: nally one sees little turnstile gate and
the crowd begins to move towards it.
The scene in the magnificent salon
afterwards is really very well worth
seeing, and the fair women and brave
men (all in uniform Or court dress) are
really superb.
1t seems to me. as | look upon it.
that should abolish the turnstile. AT
, ter the presentation. the next day, one
goes to the palace and to Marlborough
House and writes ones name in the
Queens Book. and in that of the Prince
of Wales. His Royal Highness is saio
I to look over his book carefully. Their
0 comes "a great card from the Lore
Chamberlain with the Queens com
mand that you should be invited to til,
: ball at Buckingham Palace. This j
II really worth going to and crossing thu
e Atlantic to see. Buckingham Palace il
a not homc-it IS merely grand recep
ton hall for courtly ceremonials; but il
y the evening. with the stairs banked will
= flowers and the glory of a Thousand
" wax candles. it is banquet hal
IS worthy of England's renown.
!. Americans in London suffer fror
}; two causes. One is the jealousy @
II other Americans. The moment on
American gets footing in this brilllan
o and not too exclusive society he begin
e to push away other Americans. All til
3 vices of the society snob r.pen in til
5. person newly introduced to the societ
e of the great That happens ever.
where. The other cause is the push {
p the numbers. the fifty thousand. all an
ID each one as good as all the rest. 1t
i not lovely spectacle at the America
Legation.
% Perhaps we are too large a nation
e. hut let us never forget our nat on;
tie self-respect. Our NJ ster and n
n staff seemed animated 10y the most fe
II vent desire to serve their cOuntrymer
,r Certainly if any one complained
n: should not be myself. for | receive
id every kindness and attention at the
8. hands. / felt, as we all do in Londol
Id that our Embassy should be on broad,
n principles, for such II great. powerful
n rich republic as ours should be repr
n, scented by house as grand as that
nv any other embassy in London. o.
d. Minister should be paid splenddly, {
n he could entertain better than his sala
IN allows. and the nation should be G
n. ficially on par with the Empire
Sc Russia, the Kingdom of Italy, the r
he public of France.
nd We are rs great as any of them, a
10 we not? We think we are. anyway.
DIP They seem to manage things far be
No ter IN nome. MI. ASIOt, the most pa
If ular, suave, educated aud respectful
in of Ministers. never seemed to have al
b. trouble. The Americans went to Il
Queens cercLe at the appo nted eve
ne ing She, the sweetest. most beautif
ire of creatures, is vastly approachabl
10 and the world kisses the hem of Ii
is robe.
hit We received our cards and drove
81 the Quirinal Palace one beautiful K
I'll man evening. The grand staircase,
,he covered with scarlet carpet, was lin
,se with the gigantic cuirassiers in scarf
po- who stood as motionless as the Queer
household troops. Is scarlet roy
his Tyran purple, by the way?. They 5
"a SO.
nd We entered grand, gloomy ha
nd frescood by Domin chino. How SIN
ust we felt IN the presence of these migl
in figures. We left our cloa6s in a sale
nm. which may have been ornamented
ne. Julio Romano. for aught know.
ou- came finally to the presence of the han
INST soonest man in Rome. Pr nee V .coya
ev- who married our beautiful Miss Sp'
do Ger, now one of the Queen favor
Mt ladies in waiting. The Prince took
, TO cards and our names. and showed
he'd into n long room, round the W;
,bla of which were rows of chairs